Faith Lab
Verified HostWhat if Christianity could handle your toughest questions? Scholars. Evidence. Honest questions. A podcast for people who want faith they can trust with both heart and mind. Faith Lab brings serious biblical scholarship out of academic conferences and dense books and into conversations you can actually follow. Every episode, world-class historians, biblical scholars, and researchers explain what they've spent their careers studying about Jesus, the Bible, and the origins of Christianity. What they share will surprise you. Most Christians have never heard the depth of evidence that exists for the faith they already hold. Nate and Shelby Hanson ask the questions real people are actually wondering and press every guest to make their work clear, honest, and accessible. Guests include N.T. Wright, Tim Mackie, and more. Whether you've believed your whole life and want to understand why, or you've been carrying doubts you've never said out loud, Faith Lab is for you.
Recent Episodes (5 episodes)
Why the gospels hold up as history (Craig Keener)
May 13, 2026We trust ancient biographies that were written 450 years after the fact. So why do so many Christians get told the gospels can't be trusted as history?New Testament scholar Craig Keener (author of Christobiography and a four-volume commentary on Acts) is on the show with us. He was a self-described smug atheist before he became one of the most published New Testament scholars alive, and the path he took to find out whether any of this is actually true is worth listening to.🙏 Fa